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In Italy, Patti Territoriali (Territorial Pacts) are one of the main government-sponsored programmes to foster growth in disadvantaged areas. A territorial pact is an agreement among the local authorities and representatives of civil society (mainly entrepreneurs and trade unions) of a number of...
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institutions relative to the new rules on capital and liquidity. The exercise paints a picture of broad compliance with the … prudential targets, although some elements warrant greater attention. On the one hand, although the banks� capital endowment is …
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regulatory capital and risk-weighted assets and assessing their positioning with respect to future leverage and liquidity … June 2012, show that capital and liquidity positions relatively to the Basel 3 targets have improved considerably over the … interpreted as a forecast of capital and liquidity needs as they do not incorporate any assumption about future balance …
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In 2007 the new framework for capital adequacy of banks (Basel 2), defined in 2004 by the Basel Committee for Banking … of the Italian banking system. For large internationally active intermediaries the capital requirements, calculated with … the advanced methodologies, decrease with respect to the current regime; for medium-sized banks the capital requirements …
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The paper analyses the sharp devergence in the nineties between capital formation in the main euro-area countries, on … and service sectors on capital stock, investment and value added. Our econometric estimates of an investment fonction … that links the growth of capital stock to value added for both the euro-area countries and the Anglo-Saxon countries. This …
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Guarantees play an important role in debt contracts. They alter the risk for the lender, transform borrowers� incentives and, possibly, modify the equilibrium allocation of financial resources. This paper studies the role of guarantees on bank loans, using a sample of over 50,000 individual...
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A remarkable feature of short-term business finance is the widespread use of trade credit as collateral in bank … information associated with this form of collateral. The model shows that the share of receivables pledged as collateral is larger …
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This paper analyses the business cycle properties of 183 time series relevant to the Italian economy, including real, monetary and international variables. We propose new monthly coincident and leading composite indicators for the Italian business cycle; the leading indicator anticipates the...
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In the 2008-09 school year the Bank of Italy and the Italian Ministry of Education started an experimental program to incorporate financial education into school curricula. This paper describes the experience since then. According to the program, teachers receive training from the Bank on...
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